I'm trying to figure all the various discussions under this label out. Let me summarize what I understand and then set me straight.
1) Since 'xu dai' makes little sense literally, I take it it is an idiom of some sort, apparently meaning "What is the appropriate UI to use here, with reference to someone else?", I.e., "What would contextually defined so and so have used at this point in this sentence --suitably edited?" So, 'mi xu dai klama?' asks you what someone (contextually you, again, but I supposed there is a way to assign it otherwise) would have said in the frame 'do ... klama.' (or maybe, in this case, 'la pycyn ... klama'). The correct answer is presumably something like 'zo ui' ( with an appropriate choice of UI). The answer which seems to be given is 'ui', which clearly wrong in two ways: it is now an _expression_ of the respondent's response to being asked the question (or something like that) and not someone's response to my coming and b) if it were to be that it would be deceptive since it would not actually express that emotion (in the usual case) but rather simulate it after it had gone away.
I disagree with this interpretation of {xu dai}. Just like {ui dai} ascribes happiness to the listener, {xu dai} ascribes questioning to the listener. This is little use except as a rhetorical device, but AFAICT it's the only consistent interpretation.
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